Austria-Hungary took alarm at the great increase in Serbia's territory at the expense of its national aspirations in the region, as well as Serbia's rising status, especially to Austria-Hungary's Slavic populations.

Cecil B. DeMille was known for being an instrumental catalyst for the rising status of many a struggling or unknown actor.

At the same time the rising popularity of Firefox, its status of the default browser in major distribution and the overwhelming number of its extensions led to decline of Galeon's user base.

Mormons emphasized patriotism and industry, rising in socioeconomic status from the bottom among American religious denominations to middle-class.

" The hippie movement appeared concurrently in the midst of a rising Sexual Revolution, in which many views of the status quo on this subject were being challenged.

This status was to be short-lived because the power of Wessex was rising and Sussex was to become the first kingdom of the old heptarchy to be annexed in a process that brought about the gradual unification of the Ænglecynne and the foundation of a united England.

Noted Trần Dynasty accomplishments include the creation of a system of population records based at the village level, the compilation of a formal 30-volume history of Đại Việt ( Đại Việt Sử Ký ) by Lê Văn Hưu, and the rising in status of the Nôm script, a system of writing for Vietnamese language.

According to him, " when Tangi ' ia came to Rarotonga from Tahiti, he brought with him some rankless " manahune " (...) As they had no chance of rising in social status, some of them under the leadership of Rangi migrated to Mangaia to start a new life ( c. 1450-1475 ).

Such changes included rising interest in socialism, attention to the plight of the poor and the status of women, including the issue of women's suffrage, together with increased economic opportunities as a result of rapid industrialisation.

In order to obtain a wife more consonant with his rising status, Constantius divorced Helena some time before 289, when he married Theodora, Maximian's daughter.

The Miss Universe crown used from 2002 – 2007 was designed by Mikimoto, the official jewellery sponsor of the Miss Universe Organization, and depicted the phoenix rising, signifying status, power and beauty.

He won the fight by a decision in 12, and his status among the world's top featherweights kept on rising.

The album was Mayall's commercial breakthrough, rising to # 6 on the British chart, and has since gained classic status, largely for the audacious aggressiveness and molten fluidity of Clapton's guitar playing.

This partly reflected Germany's status as a rising power in the late nineteenth century.

It is said by some authorities that the practice was more common among the higher castes, and among those who considered themselves to be rising in social status.

The financial and critical success of the event secured the company's status as the most successful promotion in the United States, rising above competitors such as the National Wrestling Alliance and American Wrestling Association.

Sri Lanka's national cricket team achieved considerable success beginning in the 1990s, rising from underdog status to winning the Cricket World Cup in 1996.

Upward social mobility is a change in a person's social status resulting in that person rising to a higher position in their status system.

With rising tension in Europe, the treaty expressively favoured maintaining the status quo.

The primary motivation for this drive is to maintain the possibility that any club in England may dream of one day rising to the very top, no matter what status they currently hold.

With his status in the boxing world rising, Chandler followed this up with a repeat victory over Solis, this time in seven rounds.

Montacute House was built circa 1598 by Sir Edward Phelips, whose family had been resident in the Montacute area since at least 1460, first as yeomen farmers before rising in status.

The tactic worked, and this film solidified her status as a rising star.

Edwin " Ed " Meese, III ( born December 2, 1931 ) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration ( 1967 – 1974 ), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team ( 1980 ), and the Reagan White House ( 1981 – 1985 ), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States ( 1985 – 1988 ).

Deploring the rising death rate from contagious diseases in the poorest parts of the city, in January 1876, Chamberlain forcibly purchased Birmingham's waterworks for a combined sum of £ 1, 350, 000, creating Birmingham Corporation Water Department, having declared to a House of Commons Committee that ' We have not the slightest intention of making profit ... We shall get our profit indirectly in the comfort of the town and in the health of the inhabitants '.

It was constructed by Trinity House in 1913 and comprises a white, octagonal tower rising from flat-roofed service rooms and cottages, all built of stone.

The Duke's return to favour under the House of Hanover enabled him to preside over the defeat of the 1715 Jacobite rising from London ( although it was his former assistant, Cadogan, who directed the operations ).

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli ( Antony Sher ) has a weakening hold over the House of Commons and a fear of rising anti-monarchical sentiment in the country.

It rises about north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, not far from one of its tributaries rising at Dozmary Pool and Colliford Lake, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens at Milltown before joining the English Channel at Fowey.

Though outwardly this seems like an opportunity for great wealth and power for House Atreides, Leto recognizes it as a trap ; Shaddam has become threatened by Leto's rising power, and somehow intends to diminish or destroy him.

The Altmark remained with the Brandenburg margraviate, since 1415 held by the House of Hohenzollern, and thereby became part of rising Brandenburg-Prussia and of the Kingdom of Prussia upon its creation in 1701.

In 1367 the League of God's House ( Cadi, Gottes Haus, Ca ' di Dio ) was founded to resist the rising power of the Bishop of Chur.

Frederick Muhlenberg ( 1750 – 1801 ), a Lutheran pastor, became a major patriot and politician, rising to Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives.

But Holles, declaring that he could not render the king or his country better service, put the Protestations to the House from memory, all the members rising to their feet and applauding.

The rising had its origin in the struggle between the House of Hohenstaufen, which in the 13th century ruled Germany and most of northern Italy, versus the papacy for control over Italy, especially the Church's private demesne known as the Papal States.

He assisted to quell the rising in Devonshire in 1549, and after his father had been created Earl of Bedford in January 1550, was known as Lord Russell, taking his seat in the House of Lords under this title in 1552.

House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of the all-powerful corporations.

His brother Terry Crapo served in Idaho House of Representatives, four years as majority leader and was seen as a rising star in Idaho politics.

Also, as Speaker of the House, in the interest of the United States of America, Rayburn forged close friendships and partnerships with legislatures of emerging independent countries and democracies on the continent of Africa, especially Nigeria, a rising political power on that continent.

After an unsuccessful bid for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1845, Packer won a seat in Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1847, rising to the post of Speaker of the House.

Beasley served as a member of the House from 1979 until 1995, rising through the party ranks to become Majority Whip.

After rising to become ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Bolton was defeated in a bid for a sixteenth term in 1968 by Charles Vanik.

After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, the Congress of Vienna created a kingdom for the House of Orange-Nassau, thus combining the United Provinces of the Netherlands with the former Austrian Netherlands in order to create a strong buffer state north of France ; with the unification of all the provinces the Netherlands was indeed a rising power.

In 1902, Iowa Congressman John F. Lacey, who chaired the House Committee on the Public Lands, traveled to the Southwest with the rising anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett, to see for himself the extent of the pot hunters ' impact.